Best saw to cut plywood for furniture

Upscale wrote:
| I was wondering, is there a decent type of tape to use for cutting?
| Considering that the adhesives on tape have a good chance of
| collecting on the saw blade, what kind of tape works well but
| minimizes the adhesive sticking to the blade?
I've used drafting tape. The adhesive isn't agressive and it seems to
have just enough "hold" to keep the wood fibers at the cut line from
lifting.
Seems as if at one time drafting tape and masking tape were identical,
or nearly so; but the masking tape I looked at last trip to the lumber
yard now comes in all kinds of flavors...
| Is it necessary to remove gunk from the blade after every cut when
| using tape?
I didn't find it so; but it's probably a good idea to eyeball the
blade from time to time. I suspect that any residue from masking tape
will clean off fairly quickly with almost any petro-solvant.
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

Regular masking 3/4" wide tape has always worked
fine for me, but you might want to try some of the
blue painter's tape which is not as aggressive as
regular masking tape. You want to put the tape on
so that the saw cuts down the middle and force the
tape against the wood with heavy finger pressure.
Never had any tape adhesive get on my saw blades,
but you want to keep a watch that any tape doesn't
tear off and ball up raising the wood a tiny bit.
Not a problem if you use heavy pressure when
applying and smoothing the tape.

I've been meaning to try out that blue tape. Last time I painted my
apartment and used masking tape on a few areas, when I pulled it off it took
some of the original paint with it. I was so disgusted at seeing the pits in
my apartment wall quit painting immediately and left it that way for several
years before I got to plastering it and then painting it again. I should
have know better, like what apartment super is going to use premium quality
paint that doesn't flake off at the slightest irritation?

although i had cut quite a few sheets of ply on my unisaw, for which i built a
large (mobile) infeed table, i learned that that is not ideal. the prblem
isn't man-handling the material, it's the difficulty of keeping the wood
against the fence, particularly when ripping.
i tried clamping a straight-edge on the infeed table but that proved to be
inadequate. so, while a it on the expensive side, i purchased a festool
plungesaw and fence system. the quality of the cut is impeccable and i no
longer have to hope to deal with less-than adequate results of the unisaw.
--
regards,
greg (non-hyphenated american)
http://users.adelphia.net/~kimnach

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